Almost tripped over my feet, but you were faster! Good work! Don’t mind as long as it wasn’t the taunting Queen Bee Prima-Bloggah-Diva, Chipsticks, Head Rabble Rouser and ‘moral’ Cheater! Now I can actually go and eat. 😉
Nena, I hope the word “concerned” is British understatement, because they both ought to be outraged, furious and sickened by the disrespectful treatment of the dead by Putin’s thugs. And together Cameron and Merkel should be ‘demanding’ Putin stop the goon squad.
Merkel, to the best of my reallocation, she has yet to say anything publicly. 4 killed due to downing of HP 17 must not be enough for her? I don’t know.
Hope they are also concerned about the plane coming down in the first place! I’ve been seeing pictures all weekend of the victims – cannot stop seeing the little ones.
This is what scares me sometimes about this place – how often people come out with the exact, same words! I haven’t been able to check comments as I write, so I find it kind of funny that I wrote ‘I like the #RemoveALetterRuinABand tweets’, then immediately changed the ‘I like’ part only to now read your opinion. Not a biggie, but funny to me. 😉 😉
What a group! Next to Diahann Carroll is Paul Newman, Charlton Heston (before he became a NRA nut) and Harry Belefonte. In the top photo I saw Marlon Brando. That’s an awful lot of uber beautiful people in one place. Amazing, amazing day.
But we give Israel money , tax payers money , to build iron dome. Our technology. Then, when they run out of missiles, we give them more money.
This protects Israel from those rockets.
Almost to a precise.
So, why does Hamas keep launching them?
because they are defending themselves against Israel. You know something that’s interesting the fact that Israel wont release the audio of those three teenagers were killed and all sources have said that the killer spoke in Hebrew.
Hamas are Palestinians too. They live there and they want better for their own community. Denying basic rights for most is Never a winning issue in the long run. People will fight oppression. The solution is quite simple. The political will is Not there. History is full of this and those who refuse to learn from History are doom to repeat the failures.
Truth be told, Hamas will never stop. That is unfortunate.
This crisis didn’t start with Hamas launching rockets. It started after an extreme small unknown group in Gaza who kidnapped and killed 3 teens. Netanyahu knew it was Not The Hamas……but he used that to get to where things stand today. Quite unfortunate.
Electing Netanyahu was never a sound judgement. Whenever peace is around the corner, those who want war win in Israel and in Gaza.
because when people continue to come into your neighborhood, pull you out of your own house and proceed to kick your ass in your own front yard, you just may opt to fight back.
I think both of these statements are 100 percent consistent. You can defend the need for someone’s actions, but caution them against the extent of the harm they’re inflicting. I’m very glad that PBO called Netanyahu and warned him that the world is watching. If Kerry had come out blasting Israel THAT would have been the story and Bibi would have used it against the US. The president is too smart to let that happen. It’s Israel, not the US, whose actions are in the spotlight.
Sinkholes are starting to be prevalent everywhere. We lost a whole street and all the homes on it in the town next door in a neighborhood that had no problems since it was built over 60 years ago. There’s a sinkhole so large on a major thru state highway, that it’s no longer possible to fill it and now crews have to build a bypass bridge. Amazing how the sinkhole phenomena coincided with PA’s fracking frenzy. But, of course, you are not supposed to mention that coincidence.
I so agree Nena20409. James Garner is my husband’s hero. We have a station that plays all the old Marverick TV shows, we dvr them everyday and watch them. My husband is on who will talk his way out of anything before he becomes mad or physical. We have all his movies, my favorite is Victor/Victoria. He will be missed.
Love all the tweets. I really like the idea and Stephanie Pelosi follows Chips!!!!!
I’m waiting for the media to start making a issue out of POTUS playing golf. With all the crisis going on, he should stop playing golf. They might have already said it.
Yes, an everyman. That’s what made The Rockford Files so popular.
Aside: My first supervisor’s home was used in an exterior shot in a Rockford Files episode in the 1970s. She lived in Paradise Cove (a mobile home park at the beach in Malibu), but alas, she lost everything in a fire that roared through the area in 1982.
She had kitschy stuff outside, which fit the offbeat theme of The Rockford Files.
Rest in Peace, Jim. You brought lots of smiles to many people.
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For those too young to remember, here’s a piece that puts his television shows in perspective: (I really like @Poniewozik’s insight on most TV shows, but since I gave up my TV, haven’t been keeping up on his essays.)
Remember that CNNer who reported about the small gathering of Israelis cheering as bombs were raining down Gaza? She tweeted calling those cheering “scums” Well she was pulled off from Gaza and today, I just saw her reporting from Moscow, Russia this afternoon. At least, she has Not been fired yet.
I suspect that Diana/e M something would soon find herself out of a Job.
I haven’t listened yet because an hour usually seems so long (for me) at the start of a video, but from past experience I’d recommend you follow Smartypants’ suggestion and watch the vid she shared at the link.
Building a moral fusion movement
I know a lot of you will think that you don’t have an hour to listen to Rev. William Barber’s speech at Netroots Nation. The media ignored it because he’s not likely to be a presidential candidate in 2016. But if you want to be inspired to build a fusion movement that takes our political discussion above the snake line to the moral high ground, I suggest you find the time. Lordy…this man is just what our spirits need these days!
‘My maternal grandmother was raised in Kentucky. She was a church-going woman with basically a good heart. And yet as a child, I remember her saying things like, “When a chigger becomes a chigero, a n*gger will become a negro.” How does one reconcile that?
………………………….//
Bob this whole scene of horror and absurdity is surreal. If someone had written this in a book or filmed it, it would have seemed unbelievable in a civilized 2014 world. The Russian thugs, goons, sociopaths who control the crash site are like relics of a barbarism you would expect in the era of Genghis Khan. It is so beyond belief that the victims, the families, the world is held in thrall to a group that seems barely human in its total lack of humanity. By continuing to support these atrocities, Putin is revealing a heart of such utter blackness that the whole world should be stunned by its depth.
I’m proud of those protestors in London. They’re doing what people in the US are too cowardly to do–calling out the evil when they see it. Americans get caught up in the politics of everything and forget the humanity. Israel is going too far and the ‘excess’ will forever stain them. Yes, they have a justification for going after Hamas. But there is no justification for causing the maximum civilian damage. This has gone from self-defense to cruelty.
John Kerry is a brilliant, deeply loyal and patriotic man who fully embraces our president’s vision of the world. He will rank among the top Secretary of States in our history.
This is not good……never ending cycle of destruction/death. Hamas has no regard for Palestinian civilians put in harms way, Bibi under the guise of “limited operation to destroy tunnels” (which I think is entirely legitimate) went far beyond that immediately, and god knows how much worse it is going to get… if that is even imaginable.
Breaking: Qassam Brigades just announce capture of Israeli soldier during battles in #Gaza in a televised/recorded speech noting name & ID#
“Hamas has no regard for Palestinian civilians put in harms way”
Nor does Bibi. And that was clear when he deliberately targeted the 4 kids playing on a beach and only slightly paid attention when he realized that he did it in front of the media. So I do not believe this is all the fault of Hamas.
Now the mandate is to push these stories and shift the focus re-balance the scales to show justification of why Israel’s war atrocities is somewhat okay because….
I don’t think the US should be funding this. There is no direct benefit to the United States and I think what Israel is doing is flat wrong.
no worries lovelyplains. I always appreciate the information you share.
I am just so sick of this nonsense when there are other alternatives. I get the complexity of the issue but for me dead children, destroyed families and homes are never acceptable. It needs to stop.
The only way to force an agreement from my perspective is for the United States to stop using tax payer dollars to fund this war.
The Obama Diary 
!
Hey, Chips! ♫ Na-nana-na-nah!’ 😛
Close vc, so very close sister 🙂
Almost tripped over my feet, but you were faster! Good work! Don’t mind as long as it wasn’t the taunting Queen Bee Prima-Bloggah-Diva, Chipsticks, Head Rabble Rouser and ‘moral’ Cheater! Now I can actually go and eat. 😉
Noooooooooooooooo way Lion Queen!!!!!!
Hear me ROAR!!!!
Look! it’s the laughing Lioness LOL!!!
Ta da!
Hmmmm. Were you working with Chips? Was this a conspiracy? Just wondering.
Anyhoo, Congrats (because *she* didn’t come in with you)!
Thanks vc!
Enjoy you lunch 🙂
TY, am going to try and make it real quick – don’t want to fall back into that huge hole I entered from!
Congrats Gail!!
I was holding the door open for you VC 🙂
Thanks Bob. I actually thought about vc…as I hit Send
Always the ‘gentleman’ Bob!
He spoke to Angela Merkel 7 hours before speaking to Putin.
I am hoping that a unified action will soon follow.
Is this the first we have heard anything from Merkel. Is she afraid to say something?
Nena, I hope the word “concerned” is British understatement, because they both ought to be outraged, furious and sickened by the disrespectful treatment of the dead by Putin’s thugs. And together Cameron and Merkel should be ‘demanding’ Putin stop the goon squad.
Merkel, to the best of my reallocation, she has yet to say anything publicly. 4 killed due to downing of HP 17 must not be enough for her? I don’t know.
Hope they are also concerned about the plane coming down in the first place! I’ve been seeing pictures all weekend of the victims – cannot stop seeing the little ones.
Yes, Nena, and I share the same hope, though it’s not evident yet. BTW, left some comments for you on the previous thread.
Thanks. Went back and read them Doc.
Thank you, Bfr, much appreciated. I admit I was a bit slow off the start, but I do not feel too badly as I made it in ahead of uknowho. 😉
🙂
I like the “remove a letter” tweets…Ew kids on the block – ha!
This is what scares me sometimes about this place – how often people come out with the exact, same words! I haven’t been able to check comments as I write, so I find it kind of funny that I wrote ‘I like the #RemoveALetterRuinABand tweets’, then immediately changed the ‘I like’ part only to now read your opinion. Not a biggie, but funny to me. 😉 😉
Scary good vc 🙂
😀 Our side has most of the goodness, so yes.
Good Day All
Hiya Marlz!!!
What a group! Next to Diahann Carroll is Paul Newman, Charlton Heston (before he became a NRA nut) and Harry Belefonte. In the top photo I saw Marlon Brando. That’s an awful lot of uber beautiful people in one place. Amazing, amazing day.
Bob, please continue to send out this message.
Then, after Kerry vehemently defends Israel on all Sunday shows Whitehorse makes this statement
#bothsides
:
That was also stated by POTUS on Friday.
Nobody likes the Killings. No body likes the conflict. No body is willing to do what is needed to put a STOP to the chronic slaughter.
But we give Israel money , tax payers money , to build iron dome. Our technology. Then, when they run out of missiles, we give them more money.
This protects Israel from those rockets.
Almost to a precise.
So, why does Hamas keep launching them?
because they are defending themselves against Israel. You know something that’s interesting the fact that Israel wont release the audio of those three teenagers were killed and all sources have said that the killer spoke in Hebrew.
“all sources have said that the killer spoke in Hebrew.”
I have been reading the same information as well Jeff. US tax payer dollars should not be funding this war.
Yes, we do all that.
Hamas are Palestinians too. They live there and they want better for their own community. Denying basic rights for most is Never a winning issue in the long run. People will fight oppression. The solution is quite simple. The political will is Not there. History is full of this and those who refuse to learn from History are doom to repeat the failures.
Truth be told, Hamas will never stop. That is unfortunate.
This crisis didn’t start with Hamas launching rockets. It started after an extreme small unknown group in Gaza who kidnapped and killed 3 teens. Netanyahu knew it was Not The Hamas……but he used that to get to where things stand today. Quite unfortunate.
Electing Netanyahu was never a sound judgement. Whenever peace is around the corner, those who want war win in Israel and in Gaza.
because when people continue to come into your neighborhood, pull you out of your own house and proceed to kick your ass in your own front yard, you just may opt to fight back.
I think both of these statements are 100 percent consistent. You can defend the need for someone’s actions, but caution them against the extent of the harm they’re inflicting. I’m very glad that PBO called Netanyahu and warned him that the world is watching. If Kerry had come out blasting Israel THAT would have been the story and Bibi would have used it against the US. The president is too smart to let that happen. It’s Israel, not the US, whose actions are in the spotlight.
So the black box is red. Must have been invented by a religion.
🙂
Yes, they’re an orange/red as to make them easier to see.
These tweets are incredible.
RIP James Garner. A true Gentleman and a Gentle Soul.
He had the heart and the looks. Rest Well. So Long. 86 yrs well lived. Thanks.
Au for GGail.
Ag for VC 😉
re: your link at the bottom of the last thread…
From the article:
“Officials say sinkholes are a way of life in Florida, where there have been nearly 300 ground depressions since 2010.”
And no doubt only going to get worse as ocean levels rise and the Florida peninsula becomes the Florida islands… 😦
Sinkholes are starting to be prevalent everywhere. We lost a whole street and all the homes on it in the town next door in a neighborhood that had no problems since it was built over 60 years ago. There’s a sinkhole so large on a major thru state highway, that it’s no longer possible to fill it and now crews have to build a bypass bridge. Amazing how the sinkhole phenomena coincided with PA’s fracking frenzy. But, of course, you are not supposed to mention that coincidence.
Thanks Nena 🙂
I so agree Nena20409. James Garner is my husband’s hero. We have a station that plays all the old Marverick TV shows, we dvr them everyday and watch them. My husband is on who will talk his way out of anything before he becomes mad or physical. We have all his movies, my favorite is Victor/Victoria. He will be missed.
Love all the tweets. I really like the idea and Stephanie Pelosi follows Chips!!!!!
Some of those #RemoveALetterRuinABand made me smile. 😎
“Pubic Enemy” (AKA GOP)
😀
Look at you, you tweetererer ‘par excellence’!
And my trusty sidekick 😉 TY
The thing is vc, it works out with or without the L
I noticed that too, Layla, but decided to ‘enter’ the hashtag show for both of us. 😀 😀
Bull’s eye, VC. Well done.
Me too vc.
So I saw – See my inane comment…. somewhere. 🙂
I’m waiting for the media to start making a issue out of POTUS playing golf. With all the crisis going on, he should stop playing golf. They might have already said it.
Oh, f*CK. What a powerful image. 😦
This one hit me in the gut.
This is perfect. Wish US papers would pick it up, but if they can’t find an anti-Obama bias in it, so they won’t want it.
I posted this on the Early Bird thread, but thought folks who missed it might be interested in a little slice of life from me:
re: James Garner
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Yes, an everyman. That’s what made The Rockford Files so popular.
Aside: My first supervisor’s home was used in an exterior shot in a Rockford Files episode in the 1970s. She lived in Paradise Cove (a mobile home park at the beach in Malibu), but alas, she lost everything in a fire that roared through the area in 1982.
She had kitschy stuff outside, which fit the offbeat theme of The Rockford Files.
Rest in Peace, Jim. You brought lots of smiles to many people.
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For those too young to remember, here’s a piece that puts his television shows in perspective: (I really like @Poniewozik’s insight on most TV shows, but since I gave up my TV, haven’t been keeping up on his essays.)
This Toon says it all
😳 I duplicated HF2 😉
bts may delete mine.
Remember that CNNer who reported about the small gathering of Israelis cheering as bombs were raining down Gaza? She tweeted calling those cheering “scums” Well she was pulled off from Gaza and today, I just saw her reporting from Moscow, Russia this afternoon. At least, she has Not been fired yet.
I suspect that Diana/e M something would soon find herself out of a Job.
I haven’t listened yet because an hour usually seems so long (for me) at the start of a video, but from past experience I’d recommend you follow Smartypants’ suggestion and watch the vid she shared at the link.
Building a moral fusion movement
I know a lot of you will think that you don’t have an hour to listen to Rev. William Barber’s speech at Netroots Nation. The media ignored it because he’s not likely to be a presidential candidate in 2016. But if you want to be inspired to build a fusion movement that takes our political discussion above the snake line to the moral high ground, I suggest you find the time. Lordy…this man is just what our spirits need these days!
http://www.immasmartypants.blogspot.ca/2014/07/building-moral-fusion-movement.html
‘My maternal grandmother was raised in Kentucky. She was a church-going woman with basically a good heart. And yet as a child, I remember her saying things like, “When a chigger becomes a chigero, a n*gger will become a negro.” How does one reconcile that?
………………………….//
http://immasmartypants.blogspot.ca/2014/07/how-my-grandmother-learned-to-be-racist.html
Diana Magnay is now reassigned to Moscow, Russia. I actually saw her today reporting from Russia on CNN. Question is how long will CNN keep her?
Fired only if she says something bad about Putin
Bob this whole scene of horror and absurdity is surreal. If someone had written this in a book or filmed it, it would have seemed unbelievable in a civilized 2014 world. The Russian thugs, goons, sociopaths who control the crash site are like relics of a barbarism you would expect in the era of Genghis Khan. It is so beyond belief that the victims, the families, the world is held in thrall to a group that seems barely human in its total lack of humanity. By continuing to support these atrocities, Putin is revealing a heart of such utter blackness that the whole world should be stunned by its depth.
” By continuing to support these atrocities, Putin is revealing a heart of such utter blackness that the whole world should be stunned by its depth.”
He’s as evil as any person whom has ever lived, Jacqueline.
I’m proud of those protestors in London. They’re doing what people in the US are too cowardly to do–calling out the evil when they see it. Americans get caught up in the politics of everything and forget the humanity. Israel is going too far and the ‘excess’ will forever stain them. Yes, they have a justification for going after Hamas. But there is no justification for causing the maximum civilian damage. This has gone from self-defense to cruelty.
“I’m proud of those protestors in London. They’re doing what people in the US are too cowardly to do–calling out the evil when they see it.”
This times 1,000,000,000
John Kerry is a brilliant, deeply loyal and patriotic man who fully embraces our president’s vision of the world. He will rank among the top Secretary of States in our history.
These fletchette darts are hideous and barbaric. The damage to plants, animals and humans must be grotesque and unthinkable.
President Obama’s response to NYT:
Well, ths must qualify as ‘journalistic interpretation’, yes? We are all journalists now. Hmmm..
I LOVE THIS GUY!!
Chilcot inquiry: Blair and Straw to get warning letters ahead of publication of report into 2003 invasion of Iraq
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/chilcot-inquiry–blair-and-straw-to-get-warning-letters-ahead-of-publication-of-report-into-2003-invasion-of-iraq-9617005.html
Boom – this chart should be front paged….
Despite efforts by the US media, most of these countries have higher approvals for PBO (at his lowest) than they had for GWB (at his highest).
SWWWEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEETTTTT! TY, HF!
This is not good……never ending cycle of destruction/death. Hamas has no regard for Palestinian civilians put in harms way, Bibi under the guise of “limited operation to destroy tunnels” (which I think is entirely legitimate) went far beyond that immediately, and god knows how much worse it is going to get… if that is even imaginable.
“Hamas has no regard for Palestinian civilians put in harms way”
Nor does Bibi. And that was clear when he deliberately targeted the 4 kids playing on a beach and only slightly paid attention when he realized that he did it in front of the media. So I do not believe this is all the fault of Hamas.
Now the mandate is to push these stories and shift the focus re-balance the scales to show justification of why Israel’s war atrocities is somewhat okay because….
I don’t think the US should be funding this. There is no direct benefit to the United States and I think what Israel is doing is flat wrong.
“Nor does Bibi” I thought that was implied by my statement & tweets above/previous thread. I agree w/ your sentiment…sorry if there was any confusion.
no worries lovelyplains. I always appreciate the information you share.
I am just so sick of this nonsense when there are other alternatives. I get the complexity of the issue but for me dead children, destroyed families and homes are never acceptable. It needs to stop.
The only way to force an agreement from my perspective is for the United States to stop using tax payer dollars to fund this war.
“The only way to force an agreement from my perspective is for the United States to stop using tax payer dollars to fund this war.”
I don’t know if you saw this but the Neo-cons are arguing an end of tax dollars for opposite & perverse reasons:
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/07/18/some-of-israel-s-top-defenders-say-it-s-time-to-end-u-s-aid.html
New post:
http://theobamadiary.com/2014/07/20/sunday-bloody-sunday/